EES 517 Advanced Atmospheric Chemistry [3]
Phenomena studied include: fundamental physical, chemical, and biological processes that affect the composition of the atmosphere. the chemical mechanisms that affect the production and fate of hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, sulfur, and halogen-containing species in the atmosphere and their distribution in the troposphere, and an overview of the problem related to ozone and climate impact of the changes in the abundance of radiatively active gases.

EES 523 Advanced Depositional Systems [3]
Advanced depositional systems is designed to give the students an overall expasure and understanding of a wide variety of clastic and carbonate depositional environments

PHY 661 Biophysics I [3]
Physical analysis and modeling on various bio-physical phenomena, excitable media and reaction-diffusion systems, morphogenic developmental processes of biological forms, physics of neurons and neural network, nonlinear time series analysis and statistical analysis on various biological time series.